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2017-09-16 Home Front: WoT
Protesters fill St. Louis streets, [as] ex-cop acquitted of murdering black man
ST. LOUIS - Hundreds of protesters poured into St. Louis streets on Friday, and some scuffles erupted, after a Missouri judge acquitted a former white police officer who was charged with murder in the 2011 fatal shooting of a black man.

...Former city policeman Jason Stockley, 36, was found not guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith, 24, in a verdict rendered by a judge five weeks after the end of a non-jury trial. Stockley said Smith fled in his car when the officer tried to arrest him on drug charges.

Stockley and his partner chased Smith, who was shot five times in his car. The former policeman believed Smith was armed, defense attorneys said. A gun was found in the car, but prosecutors argued Stockley planted the weapon and that gun had only Stockley's DNA on it.

...In his ruling, Judge Timothy Wilson said the state had failed to prove a charge of murder beyond a reasonable doubt, or even a lesser charge such as involuntary manslaughter.

The judge also said he doubted the prosecution's claim the gun was planted, writing: "Finally, the court observes, based on its nearly 30 years on the bench, that an urban heroin dealer not in possession of a firearm would be an anomaly."
Incidentally, would I be correct in assuming that the diseased clients' were mostly African-Americans?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-16 01:48|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 the PD blocked em from getting on the highway, frustrating their publicity moment
Posted by Frank G 2017-09-16 08:56||   2017-09-16 08:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Not too many Korean grocers in St.Louis?
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-09-16 13:27||   2017-09-16 13:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Idjts.

The judge had no choice in the ruling. The Prosecutors decided to go all in for Murder in the First, but the evidence didn't support the charge.

Prosecutors should have gone for a Manslaughter charge. Judge would have probably gone with it. The "target public," at the time charges were announced, however, would have gone bananas about anything but Murder.

It is distressing to see how may of our fellow citizens have no clue as to how our legal system works.

But, of late, law is in the eye of the beholder.
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2017-09-16 14:12||   2017-09-16 14:12|| Front Page Top

#4 So why would any person want to move to St. Louis now? Why would any business want to relocate or expand there?

St. Louis used to be a great place. But now, with all this silliness going on...
Posted by Tom 2017-09-16 15:57||   2017-09-16 15:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Home of Budweiser.
The Stallions have been neutered.
Posted by Skidmark 2017-09-16 18:02||   2017-09-16 18:02|| Front Page Top

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